Rescued Daughter and Son in Law

Well, this started back in July. My Daughter Beth and husband Bob bought a small farm North of Albany NY. When we had a family get together last summer, she asked what they could get for a tractor with $5,000. Well, I went on Craig's list for that area and the best buy that I could find was an AC 160 with shredder and a snowblower. These were the two implements that they needed the most. They bought it and used it a little, including clearing their long drive way once or twice. Last night she called because he was intending to mount the snowblower for last night's storm and the lift wouldn't. I told her that it was ice in the hydraulic system, and to heat it. They didn't have anything but a hair dryer for that so I told her to go get a propane torch. Late this morning she called to get a better idea of where to hold the torch, and to tell me what they found when they drained some oil. Of course it was coffee milkshake. They had the torch heating it for 20 minutes with no success, and I told them to not to expect anything to happen for an hour. Later on she sent me a picture of it working and they were both very happy. I suggested that they drain the oil before it gets cold again and refill it once they can pick the oil up.

sounds like you may have saved yourself at trip out there next weekend to repair, good save,

Dad had one of those ACs , would do the same thing every year. The cure was easy, a can of "sea foam" every year, an old
mechanic friend of mine who had ACs told me that one. Worked every year.

Gear shift boot?

I have heard of people using a pan of coal or brackets. Anyone ever try it?

(quoted from post at 18:12:51 01/20/19) Gear shift boot?

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While a bad gearshift boot is a remote possibility, we know that condensation is getting into all of our tractors all the time so it doesn't take a bad gearshift boot.

(quoted from post at 18:29:45 01/20/19) I have heard of people using a pan of coal or brackets. Anyone ever try it?

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Olliejunkie, some years ago or to be more modern maybe 1.19 decades ago? I was talking to a fellow who had worked at open pit gold fields in Quebec Canada in the fifties. He told me that when they needed to start a crawler that had been allowed to get cold the routine thing to do was to build a fire under it. He finally had enough of the cold and moved to LA.